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Kitt Peak Optical Image of NGC 281 ()

NGC 281 shows a centralized cluster of hot blue stars, dust and gas, and lanes of obscuring dust. NGC 281 is about 9,500 light years from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia. This wide-field view of the star-forming region NGC 281 was taken with the WIYN 0.9-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, AZ. (Credit: NSF/AURA/WIYN/Univ. of Alaska/T.A.Rector)


This item is part of the collection: Chandra Space Telescope Collection

Mediatype: image
Date: 0000
Insightuid: nasaNAS~22~22~128343~236549
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/ngc281/more.html
What: Earth
What: Constellation
What: Cassiopeia
Identifier: CHAN-913
Addeddate: 2010-01-05 22:05:49
Publicdate: 2010-01-05 22:24:35
Keywords: What -- Earth; What -- Constellation; What -- Cassiopeia

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